Professor Rahim Tafazolli tells Gigaom: "We're bringing all the major stakeholders together and we are going to decide on the advanced technologies and test them end-to-end.

"Once we are happy with the set of technologies that we have developed, in terms of performance, then we will push that particular technology towards standardisation."

Speeds on 5G are tipped to reach 10Gbps. Yikes. On the downside, it’ll be 2023 or so before the dream is realised, and we’ll all be 10 years older, with grey hair and fantastic beards. Actually, that doesn’t sound too bad.